The Leaven in a Great City

by New York, Lillian W. Betts

$175 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial cloth, stamped in colors with gilt spine titles; 315pp; frontispiece and 35 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates halftones . Square and tight with a trace of rubbing at board corners; Near Fine. Unusually nice copy of this richly-illustrated survey of New York slums, with much on the history

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